Welcome to the eternal rivalry of the software world: Tester vs Developer. It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the first bug labeled “works on my machine.” Round 1: Bug Reporting vs Bug Denial  The tester opens a ticket: “Login crashes when password contains emoji + Sanskrit + 32…

Submitting a pull request is like publishing your diary and then watching your teammates annotate it with red ink and passive-aggressive emojis. You finally finish your feature—a button that actually works—and create a PR. You title it “Minor Fix,” because “Hours of existential dread condensed into 4 lines” doesn’t fit well in Jira. Soon, the…

It’s 9:59 AM. Your Zoom is open, your camera’s on, and your soul is nowhere to be found. Welcome to the sacred ritual of daily standup, a meeting designed to last 15 minutes but somehow enters its third reincarnation before lunch. The idea is noble: sync up, align, share blockers. The reality? An unstructured improv…

There are brave souls in this world—firefighters, surgeons, tightrope walkers. And then, there are software engineers who choose to deploy code on a Friday. They’re not seeking adrenaline; they’re just one Slack ping away from voluntarily diving into the abyss of post-work chaos. It always starts innocently. The clock ticks 4:45 PM, your weekend plans…

Welcome to the Theatre of Agile! Every day at 10 a.m., millions of developers are yanked from their code like a USB without safely ejecting. Why? To stand in a circle and declare, “I’m blocked by the API team,” while the API team, standing 2 feet away, pretends to take notes. These meetings were designed…

If Dante had worked in tech, one of the circles of hell would definitely be labeled “Assigned Jira Ticket with No Context.” You open your Jira board. There it is—TKT-3487—with the description: “Fix the thing that breaks sometimes when it does the thing.” You scroll down. No attachments. No error logs. No comments. Just a…